Improvement in plate-printing register



2 SheetsSheet J. L. HARLEY.

PLATE PRINTING REGISTER.

No. 100,399. Patented Mar, 1, 1870.

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J.L.HARLEY.

. PLATE PRINTING REGISTER.

N0.100, 399. Patented Mar. 1, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 10U,39l, dated March 1, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLATE-PRINTING- REGISTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnru L. HARLEY, of the city of Washington, in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia, have invented certain Improve ments in Registering Devices in Gonnectiou with *Printiug-Presses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accon'ipanying drawings.

My invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of a series of mechanical devices, in connection with suitable dials for registering on their faces the exact movement of its parts, and also, in connecting these mechanical devices with their dials to a hand or'other printing-press adapted to the print ing' of fractional currency, bank notes, or similar articles, for. the specitic purpose of registering the exactnumber of times the bed-pieceof the press is moved backward and forward, and consequently the exact number of impressions that could or should be taken or made by such movements.

In the drawings- Figure l is a perspective view of the press with my mechanical devices for registering attached, and

Figure 2is a side elevation, showing my mechanical devices as constructed and arranged.

1n constructing and arranging my mechanical devices I makeLa frame, I, and mount therein a bar, G, shaped as shown in tig.'1, and having pivoted to itfour pawls, (I, d, e, and e, and having connected to itt'onr springs, M, M, N, and N, located so as to bear against the under side of the pawls, one under each respectively, for the purpose of holding them in position, and I arrange the bar so thatitinay be moved in alternate directions on pins G, passing through slots h, limiting its movement by a spring-stop, L, which catches into notches g on its under side, and which has one end attached to the frame P, all as shown in fig. 1.

In the, same frame P 1 mount a star-wheel, I1, two ratchet-wheels I and I of equal size, having studs f and f attached to their faces respectively, two smaller wheels K and K, of equal size, with their peripheries formed in semicircular curves, and two drops J and J.

These wheels and drops are shaped and arranged in the relative positions as shown in said tig. 1.

To the flame P I also attach the pawls and i, to catch in the ratchet-wheels 1 and 1' respectively, and also the springs j and j, to be be connected with the upper ends ol the drops J and J respectively These drops J and J have on the inner side of their upper ends a stud, it, represented in dotted lines, all as shown in the same fig. 1.

The manner in which these devices fiptl'illl is as follows:

When the star-wheel H. moves in the direction of arrow No.1, one of its points will bear against the end of the pawl 11 and slide the bar in the direction of arrow No. 2, while the pawl 6 will turn the ratchetwheel I the distance of one catch or tooth in the dircction of arrow No. 5, and at the same time, the wheel I being held stationary by the ratcheti, the pawl P will be depressed by the prcssureof a, tooth on this ratchet-wheel I and be carried into the next tooth by the spring N, and while this is being done the pawl 11 will be pressed down by another tooth of the starwhecl and be carried up behind it bythe spring M as Soon as it has turned far enough for the purpose.

When the bar G has been carried far enough to accomplish these results, the point of the star-wheel moving it can pass by the point of the pawl (I and will move it no further. At the same time the baris held in position by the stop L, and further continued movement of the star-wheel in that direction cannot aflect the position of the ratchet-wheel I.

=lhe movement of the star-wheel H is now reversed and"turned in the direction of arrow No. 3, when one of its points will bear against the end of pawl d and slide the bar G in the direction of arrow No. 4, when the pawl c' will be carried back one notch on the ratchet-whecl l, which is held stationary by the pawl At the same time the pawl 0 will move the ratchethcel'l forward in the direction of arrow No. 6 the distance of one-notch, and the pawl d will be depresscd and dropped back a notch on the star-wheel, and when the bar has been carried far enough to-accomplish these results, as before, the point of the star-wheel will pass by and cease to acton the pawl,'and the bar will be held by the stop L. In this way theiatchet-wheels l and 1' are moved one notch in opposite directions by the movement of the bar G forth and back.

As these ratchet-wheels revolve, the studs f and j" on their faces, respectively, will come in contact with a projecting arm, I, of the respective droppcrs J and J and raise them vertically until they (the studs) come in contact with a semicircle in the periphery of the wheels K and K respectively, when in their onward movement they will turn these wheels just the distance of the length of one of the curves in their peripheries and then pass on away from it.

At the same time that the dropsJ and J have been raised high enough to allow the studs ff to comein contact with the wheels K K the studs I: it have been raised'high enough to allow the wheels to clear them in turning, and when the studs ff leave the wheels K K, they also leave the droppors J J free to fall, which they do, when the studs kin their upper ends will drop into and lock the wheels K K in position until the studs f f come round again to move them, and this movement of the droppers is made positivv by the springs j j attached to their upper ends.

it will thus be. seen that if the wheels I I be providetl each with one hundred ratchets or notches, and the wheels I: k have each twelve semicircular curves in their peripheries, that one revolution of the wheels '1 and I would indicate two hundredmovements of the bar G, or one hundred each way, and that one revolution of the wheels K and K would indicate twelve revolutions each of the wheels I and I, or twenty-ionr hundred movements of the bar G, beingtwelve hundred each way.

These inovenients are clearly shown by attaching dials U 0' to the wheels I and I and dials P I," to the wheels K and K, respectively.

This registering device I use in con'ibination with lnuuln'css having some novelties in its construction, as shown in fig. 2 and hereinafter explained.

This press is of the class of hand-presses used in printing bank notes and similar articles, and consists ofa frame, A, with an under roller, B, and upper one, (3, mounted therein, and with the bed-plank 1.) between them. Also, of the set-screws I), for settingthe roller (l and the levers It, tbr operating the press.

To one end of the roller .13 is attached a cog-wheel, i which gears into a ratchet-plate, I), fastened-totinedge of the bed-plank l), as shown in fig. 1, and to the end of the same; roll r is attached a stop-pin, a, to limit the movement of the roller, as shown in the same ligul e. t

The registering-device above described I attach to the printing-press by connecting the star-wheel Ii, by a pin or other suitable device, to the. roller B, and surround it with a strong metallic case. having, it'desired,

a door that may be securely locked.

(in the trout ot' the dial-plate are 'dials (l O, with hands connected to the wheels I i; also, dials I I", connected to the wheels K Ii.

It will now be seen that with a press and registering-device thus constructed, arranged, and combined, every movement of the bed-plank will be registered on the times of dials, in whichever direction it moves, and that as the roller B can only move far enough to take a single impression, every time the plate from which the impressions are made is passed between the rolls, becomes duly registered, and must be accounted for, and that it will be impossible for the operators to take any impressions of any kind from the plates by means of the press without being detected, especially when the dials cannot in any way be reached by the operators.

It will thus be seen that; by means of the press, regl. A registering-device, consistingof the sliding bar G,- with its pawls d d and e e, star-wheel H and ratchet-wheels I and I, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as herein described.

2. In combination with the ratchet-wheel I, the studpin f for operating the drop J and wheel K, in the manner substantially as herein described.

3. -In combination with thestar-wheel H and sliding bar G, with its notches g, the stop L, orits equivalent, cmistructed and arranged as described, funthe purpose of limiting the moveinent-of'the bar G, as set forth.

4. The star-wheel H, the sliding bar G, with its pa-wls and springs, the ratchet-wheels I and I, with, their studs f tl-iltl f, the drops J and J, with their studs 7;, and'tho wheels K and K, when constructed and arranged to operate as herein described, for the purposefof registering on suitable dial-plates each movement of the bar G, as set forth.

In combination with a registering device as herein described, a printing-press having its roller B provided with a cog-wheel, F, and its bed-piece I) with a ratchet-plate, E, for the purpose of seeming a register of the movements of the bed-piece, as set forth.

e. In combination with the printing-press having cog-wheel l and ratchet-plate I the stop (t, for the purpose of limiting the movement of the roller B and its connections, as set forth.

JOS. L. HAflLEY.

Witnesses H. B. Moss, Pain. '1. DODGE. 

